Improvement in fence-wire stretchers



UNITED STATES PATENT GEFICE.

DAVID J. DENMARK, OF VER-GIL, AND PETER P. HILL, OF ALTO, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN FENCE-WIRE STRETCHERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 126,939, dated May 21, 1872.

SPECIFICATION.

We, DAVID J. DENMARK, of Vergil, in the county ot' Kane and in the'Stateot" Illinois,

"and PETER P. HILL, of Alto, lin the' county ot nyin g drawing.

The Nature and Object of our Invention.

Our invention relates to that class of fencewire tighteners that is pnt upon the Wire to be tightened, and turned bvmeans of a lever to wind up the wire and tighten it; and it co'nsists in the slotted post P and disks D and D. The disk D land post P are cast together; and there are also flanges F cast on the. disk D, between which the end of a lever is placed to turn the tightener. We also provide the disks D and Dl with holes H, through which a nail or piece of wire may beput to keep the tightener from unwinding when the Wire is wound upon it, as hereafter more fully described.

Descwptz'on of the Drawing.

Figure 1 represents a top or plan View of the disk D; Fig. 2, av sectional view of the tightener as put together; and Fig. 3, an inside plan View of the disk D.

General Description.

D is a disk, with a central post, P, cast with a slot, S, wide enough to receive the wire to be tightened. F are dovetail flanges cast on the disk D, as shown, to receive the end ofthe lever, with which the tightener is turned. D is also a. disk, with a central opening to receive the endot' the post P. The post P has a shoulder, against which the disk D rests, as shown, and it is held in place by the pin A. H are holes through the disks, to receive nails or pins to keep it from turning to allow the vent too snort a bend in the wire.

To use our wire-tightener We remove the disk D', and pla-ce the wire to be tightened in the slot VS; then replace the disk D, inserting the pin A to `hold it in place. The lever is then inserted between the flanges F, and the tightener turned in the direction to bend the wire round the rounded corners S1 and S2,that it may not receive so short a bend that it cannot be readily straightened again. ener is still turned the wire is wound around the post P, the disks D a-nd D guiding and holding it n the post as thread is held on a spool till it is full, it' need be, to tighten the wire sui'iiciently. When the wire is suiiciently tight a. nail or pin of some kind is put through two of the holes H in the disks, and by resting against the wire it prevents the tightener from turning and unwinding the wire when the lever is removed. rlhe tightener may be allowed to remain on the wire as long as desired. Y

Claim.

Having described the construction and op- Witnesses:

HEINE. F. BEUNs,

FRANCIS F. WARNER.

As the tight- 

